Current Role and Structure
The RAAEC is responsible for many educational areas of military training, including the development and implementation of technology and communications training at the Royal Military College, Duntroon and the Australian Defence Force Academy, managing and conducting long-distance education, teaching English to foreign students, analysing education proposals, developing tranining, and delivering literacy and numeracy and "train the trainer" programs to non commissioned officers (NCOs) on promotion courses.
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Currently, the corps is made up entirely of commissioned officers in the specialist service officer/professionally qualified stream, although in the past the RAAEC has had some NCOs allocated to it. The majority of the corps' personnel are civil qualified teachers; however, additional information technology specialists have been laterally recruited to manage the computer-based learning packages within the Army Learning Production Centre.
Members of the RAAEC are posted to a number of locations including:
- Headquarters Forces Command – Army: Sydney;
- Army Learning Production Centre (ALPC): Sydney, Brisbane, Albury/Wodonga;
- Defence International Training Centre (DITC): Laverton, Victoria;
- Various major training establishments in Victoria, New South Wales, Canberra and Queensland;
- Individual training centres, located in every state;
- Some overseas locations, including positions as language advisors.
The current Colonel-in-Chief of the RAAEC is The Duchess of Gloucester. The current Head of the Corps is Colonel Debra Bradford.
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